SUNY Cortland senior women's gymnasts Emma Schulz (Poughquag/Arlington) and Emily Speciale (San Antonio, TX/James Madison) have been selected to the 2020-21 Division III Women's At-Large Academic All-District first team for District 3, which encompasses all Division III schools in New York State. The award is chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). 
 
Schulz earned the honor for the third straight year, while Speciale earned her first honor. Both are eligible for Academic All-America recognition, which will be announced in early August. Schulz was a national first-team Academic All-American in both 2019 and 2020. 
 
The women's at-large category for CoSIDA academic honors covers 14 sports: beach volleyball, bowling, crew/rowing, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis, and water polo. 
 
A biology major with a minor in chemistry, Schulz graduated this past spring with a 4.02 cumulative grade point average. Schulz was the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) floor exercise national champion and balance beam national runner-up in 2019. In 2020, she was chosen as the NCGA and the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) East Region Gymnast of the Year and was named an All-American by both organizations. She was ranked first nationally on both floor and beam before the regional and national postseason tournaments were canceled due to COVID-19. Schulz holds a share of Cortland's school records on both floor (9.90, accomplished twice) and beam (9.825). 
 
Speciale, an exercise science major, graduated this spring with a 3.98 overall GPA. She was named an NCGA All-American in the all-around in 2020, ranking fifth nationally and second in the East before postseason action was canceled. She also earned a spot on the NCGA All-Championship Team on uneven bars, ranking eighth nationally. In addition, Speciale was one of only three SUNY Cortland students, and the lone student-athlete, to earn a 2021 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. That award recognizes special achievement in at least three of the following areas: academic excellence, leadership, campus involvement, community service, or the arts.